Re: License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:37:11PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> I'm concerned about the licensing of cdrkit[1,2] aka debburn, which
> was recently forked from cdrecord.
>
> The current license seems to be GPLv2 + additional restrictions which
> IMHO is not right because GPLv2 doesn't allow any such additional
> restrictions.
>
> An example from libscg/scsi-linux-ata.c[3]:
> <skip>
> * Warning: you may change this source, but if you do that
> * you need to change the _scg_version and _scg_auth* string below.
> * You may not return "schily" for an SCG_AUTHOR request anymore.
Idea: what about reverting this single file to the last version under real
GPL (as opposed to GPL-with-unmodifiable-sections)?
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